Philipp Bobkov

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Philipp Bobkov (born in 1925) is a former director of KGB political police department (Fifth Directorate), which was responsible for suppression of internal dissent in the former Soviet Union. He was widely regarded the chief KGB ideologist or "KGB brain".[1]

Bobkov came to work in the Soviet secret services in 1945, when they were guided by Lavrenti Beria, and survived Beria and 11 subsequent secret police chairmen. During the 1970s-1980s he "effectively became the KGB's real chairmen, although officially he held the post of first deputy".[2] He allegedly supervised transfer of Communist Party money to foreign banks prior to the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.[3]

He officially retired in 1991 and organized a private security service in the Media Most company, which included thousands of his former KGB colleagues.[4][5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ One life of Filipp Denisovich, by Evgeny Zhirnov, Kommersant, 12.05.2000.
  2. ^ The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia - Past, Present, and Future, by Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. 1994. ISBN 0-374-18104-7.
  3. ^ Transfer of Communist Party money
  4. ^ Ideologist for all times, by Felix Shemedlovsky, Russian Vedomosti
  5. ^ Apolitical Gusinsky, by Andrei Grigoriev, Company, 28.03.2000